I would be really irritated if they made the Mandarin too young. Also, with the rings being some sort of tech, I can't help but think about the Iron Man: Armored Adventures take on it. I'll be really curious to see what path they take.

Despite the fact that Thor takes place in the same universe, with all the supernatural stuff happening...

Depends on the overall reaction to Thor and the Avengers, really. If the audience can accept magic being in the same universe as Tony Stark, and it feels like a natural extension of the universe, and not just something thrown in there for giant-scale fights, then maybe Favreau will sing a different tune when it comes to Mandarin. If anything, I'd like IM3 to take a page from The Ultimates and make it unclear whether Mandarin is using magic or tech until the very end.

I love Donnie Yen. He was one of the guys I hoped would be tossed around as Mandarin. Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung would good too. What I like about Donnie Yen is that he speaks pretty good English. Same goes with CYF. Jet Li wouldn't be bad, but I can't take his voice seriously as a villian.

Kind of an outside choice for me is Sung Kang. He was in Fast in the Furious: Tokyo Drift and pretty good in it.

I thought he played a very good vialian in the one. Hes preety bad ass there, but I cant picture him being the manderin.

Donnie Yen could definitely pull off the Mandarin. He's in the same age range as Downey, even a year older I think. He can pull off the look, he speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and I think he's got the acting chops for the role.

I'm with you on this one. If anyone should be Mandarin, I'm leaning towards this guy.

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So does this changing universe and the introduction of magical elements in films like "Thor" mean we're any closer to seeing The Mandarin's diabolical blend of sorcery and science?

"I hope so," said Favreau. "Because all my stuff was tech-based, and now you have other worlds and inter-dimensions and this sense of history — which I think is quite cool — that we started with the Stark Expo."

I wonder if Mandarin's rings are going to be alien tech based or regular tech based.

I'd say tech with at least allusions to their alien origin but with Mandarin pulling it all off like an illusionist/magician type of personality(think Mysterio but on a far grander scale). Thus he really doesn't have any magic/sorcery what so ever(same as it's always been in the comics with the possible exception of all that mystic martial arts/chi stuff....which I'd leave out entirely*) but he still has the flavor of it.

*I mean leave out the chi/mystical part, not the martial arts mastery. That can stay if it fits.

And this is how he keeps himself from being challenged by his underlings in his worldwide Ten Rings terrorist/espionage organization. He's acutely aware that he needs to appear to be more than just a guy with some fancy tech(alien or otherwise) and this allows his to keep his Keyser Soze-esque quasi-mythological status among the underworld.

Now hitting all these character beats will be mighty difficult but I have faith in Favs & co. even if I did like IM2 a little bit less than IM1.

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